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Rotten Watch: Hot Fuzz

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I think the biggest laugh at my showing was Timothy Dalton's run in with the church. :lol

Also the movie has f*cking BELLOQ in it, how god damn cool is that!
 
Okay, so I saw this Friday morning before I went to Bloomington and got blitzed at Little 5.

I would say that the first third is kind of hard work, outside of the opening where it shows what Nicholas Angel has done in the past. Most of the jokes have been spoiled already due to the commercials, it's kind of slow going. The middle part is where everything kind of gets interesting because you're getting closer to the secret but you're not really there yet. The final third of the movie is pure comedy gold.

Also, Edgar Wright is a great director. Even during the more "mundane" sequences, he kept things visually interesting.

zesty said:
Another Indy GAFer, eh? ^5
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Yes sir. Does this mean that you are an Indy GAFer as well? :)
 
Solo said:
Indeed. The man needs to star in more high profile movies. Id kill to have him play a Bond villain.
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Why haven't you seen Hot Fuzz then? This is Dalton's best non-Bond role he has ever done. He is absolutely fantastic as the baddie in this film.
 
Cheebs said:
Why haven't you seen Hot Fuzz then? This is Dalton's best non-Bond role he has ever done. He is absolutely fantastic as the baddie in this film.
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1. Not playing around here.
2. Im not anywheres near enough of a Shaun/Pegg/Wright fan to drive 3-4 hours to see it.
3. DVD will be available soon.
 
After fighting to get any group of friends together last weekend, I finally broke down, said screw it, and caught a 10:30PM showing on Sunday. Probably not the smartest choice for a guy that was working the following morning, but I just couldn't let my weekend end on the down-note of not seeing it. I'm glad I made the call because the movie was excellent. As others have said it wasn't Shaun of the Dead levels of awesome, but that movie had Kate Ashfield and a shitton of zombies and is just generally impossible to live up to. It was a smaller audience that all seemed to be fans of Shaun, although I felt like abit of a tool when I was the only one that laughed my ass off at Nick's delivery of "Forget it Nick... it's Sandford.". :D
 
tedtropy said:
After fighting to get any group of friends together last weekend, I finally broke down, said screw it, and caught a 10:30PM showing on Sunday. Probably not the smartest choice for a guy that was working the following morning, but I just couldn't let my weekend end on the down-note of not seeing it. I'm glad I made the call because the movie was excellent. As others have said it wasn't Shaun of the Dead levels of awesome, but that movie had Kate Ashfield and a shitton of zombies and is just generally impossible to live up to. It was a smaller audience that all seemed to be fans of Shaun, although I felt like abit of a tool when I was the only one that laughed my ass off at Nick's delivery of "Forget it Nick... it's Sandford.". :D
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While I do like Shaun quite a bit, Hot Fuzz pissed all over it, imo. Best mix of pure action and comedy I've ever seen. Loved it. :D
 
Solo said:
Indeed. The man needs to star in more high profile movies. Id kill to have him play a Bond villain.
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I'd kill for that as well. How about a group of Bond villians all played by the former Bond actors, with the exception of Brosnan because he's too new?:D
 
Cheebs said:
This is Dalton's best non-Bond role he has ever done. He is absolutely fantastic as the baddie in this film.
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His role in 'Looney Tunes, Back in action' was really good.
But OK, agreed :)
 
Biglesworth23 said:
While I do like Shaun quite a bit, Hot Fuzz pissed all over it, imo. Best mix of pure action and comedy I've ever seen. Loved it. :D
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They're both great movies, but to me, the action and comedy wasn't as tight as Shaun. I'd almost venture to say it ran a little too long for its own good, but it's also got a different more paced approach than Shaun, so I suppose I just prefer the other style more. You really can't lose with either flick though and I'm looking forward to the bookend to the whole "Cornetto Trilogy".
 
Having seen it a couple times in theaters now, I'm also convinced that it's better than Shaun of the Dead, although they're both incredibly awesome.
 
tedtropy said:
They're both great movies, but to me, the action and comedy wasn't as tight as Shaun. I'd almost venture to say it ran a little too long for its own good, but it's also got a different more paced approach than Shaun, so I suppose I just prefer the other style more. You really can't lose with either flick though and I'm looking forward to the bookend to the whole "Cornetto Trilogy".
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Excellent points, overall. :D To each his own..
 
this was a very fun and amusing film. i really look forward to buying this when it comes out on dvd.

the only complaint i have about the movie is the
ending with the sea-mine blowing up the police headquarters, it was just completely dumb and not funny. it should have just ended with the scene of them driving off before the credits
.
 
SofaKing said:
the only complaint i have about the movie is the
ending with the sea-mine blowing up the police headquarters, it was just completely dumb and not funny. it should have just ended with the scene of them driving off before the credits
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I totally agree on that. It was unnecessary and just came off as too ridiculous, even for this movie.
 
tedtropy said:
They're both great movies, but to me, the action and comedy wasn't as tight as Shaun. I'd almost venture to say it ran a little too long for its own good, but it's also got a different more paced approach than Shaun, so I suppose I just prefer the other style more. You really can't lose with either flick though and I'm looking forward to the bookend to the whole "Cornetto Trilogy".
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I pretty much feel the same way.
 
demon said:
I totally agree on that. It was unnecessary and just came off as too ridiculous, even for this movie.
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It was too ridiculous. Wasn't that the point?

How many 80s action movies have you seen where
the non-badass half of an action pair appears to have been killed off to motivate the badass partner into one final, swift display badassery only to show up in the next scene fully recovered?

The whole last segment was just one big, over the top gag.
 
ThirstyFly said:
It was too ridiculous. Wasn't that the point?

How many 80s action movies have you seen where
the non-badass half of an action pair appears to have been killed off to motivate the badass partner into one final, swift display badassery only to show up in the next scene fully recovered?

The whole last segment was just one big, over the top gag.
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I love how the bodies somehow managed to end up on top of the rubble, with barely a scratch on them.
 
And how ridiculously perfect the rubble was, like some idealized, 1950s idea of what everything would look like after a nuclear holocaust.

And yes, the scene is meant to be stupid, contrived, and ridiculous. If you don't understand why, then you're beyond help, my friend.
 
ThirstyFly said:
It was too ridiculous. Wasn't that the point?

How many 80s action movies have you seen where
the non-badass half of an action pair appears to have been killed off to motivate the badass partner into one final, swift display badassery only to show up in the next scene fully recovered?

The whole last segment was just one big, over the top gag.
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I just felt that the entire movie was like an homage to action flicks, where as that scene felt like more of a parody. I don't know.....don't really care. It's not like it ruined the ending or anything.
 
Aristotlekh said:
And yes, the scene is meant to be stupid, contrived, and ridiculous. If you don't understand why, then you're beyond help, my friend.
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:lol

Serisouly. And having the whole
first name hidden on the gravestone until Danny shows up
was just icing on the cake. There's no way you couldn't have got the joke after that shot.

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demon said:
I just felt that the entire movie was like an homage to action flicks, where as that scene felt like more of a parody. I don't know.....don't really care. It's not like it ruined the ending or anything.
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That was part of the homage. One of the very first things I remember reading about Hot Fuzz was how much they loved how most action movies all turned into this big, crazy action scene at the end that was so over the top and impossible, but was always treated serisouly. And that's what they did for their movie.
 
Solo said:
1. Not playing around here.
2. Im not anywheres near enough of a Shaun/Pegg/Wright fan to drive 3-4 hours to see it.
3. DVD will be available soon.
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Don't you live in Montreal? I saw it wednesday and it kicks ass.
 
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Guys, I'm sorry, but I didn't like it.

I wanted to. I really, really, really wanted to. But I think Shaun may have set my expectations too high.

Where Shaun felt like a movie about realistic characters in an unrealistic situation, Hot Fuzz felt like they had taken special pains to make every single person a cartoon character, which made the humor obviously look-at-us-being-funny humor instead of the more realistic character-driven humor of Shaun.

Maybe it's just me.

I'll definitely give it another go once it comes out on DVD, but I'm worried that Shaun of the Dead --> Hot Fuzz is akin to Super Troopers
Which I know isn't nearly as good as Shaun... I'm just making the analogy because I think the tone shift of the movies as well as the dropoff in quality warrants a comparison
-->Club Dread.

So if their next movie is as bad as Beer Fest, I'm going to be really disappointed.

I'm still holding out hope, though. Hell, I didn't like Borat when I saw it in theaters, then loved it when I watched it a couple of days ago... Things change.
 
Tralfamadore64 said:
Where Shaun felt like a movie about realistic characters in an unrealistic situation, Hot Fuzz felt like they had taken special pains to make every single person a cartoon character, which made the humor obviously look-at-us-being-funny humor instead of the more realistic character-driven humor of Shaun.
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You're correct about the first part. What I'd disagree with is the idea that it's "look at us" humor just because the characters are cliche. It's genre parody. A parody of this genre SHOULD be over-the-top and it SHOULD be cartoony. If the characters were strictly normal and realistic, it wouldn't be nearly as funny.

Also, you're maybe overstating just how unrealistic they are. There's a certain self-awareness that makes them more human and believable as opposed to just cartoons, e.g. when Nick Frost does the ketchup trick and when Simon Pegg talks about how he should have said something smart after the showdown scene.
 
Aristotlekh said:
You're correct about the first part. What I'd disagree with is the idea that it's "look at us" humor just because the characters are cliche. It's genre parody. A parody of this genre SHOULD be over-the-top and it SHOULD be cartoony. If the characters were strictly normal and realistic, it wouldn't be nearly as funny.

Also, you're maybe overstating just how unrealistic they are. There's a certain self-awareness that makes them more human and believable as opposed to just cartoons, e.g. when Nick Frost does the ketchup trick and when Simon Pegg talks about how he should have said something smart after the showdown scene.
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I think you're right with your example, but I'm referring more to the characters who were completely unselfaware:

The two Andrews and all of the police officers are mainly the ones I'm referring to and Timothy Dalton in an over the top villain role, and especially annoying was the whole cloaked consipacy thing... ugh

As far as whether the entire movie should be over the top and cartoony... I'm not so sure. What I loved so much about Shaun of the Dead, like I said before, was it's ability to maintain realism while still doing a perfect sendup of the zombie genre. The reason I went to see Hot Fuzz is because I thought the film would show the same degree of intelligence and restraint that Shaun did, and was disappointed to see the movie was a fart joke and fake boobs gag away from starring Leslie Nielsen.
Oh, wait. There was a set of fake boobs. Only they were worn by a woman, so maybe that's some degree of superfunny that I failed to recognize.
 
Just got back from seeing it. First thing, the movie was way too ****ing long. I was yawning and mildly snickering the first half of the movie. They should have just made the entire movie all action. The movie was funny but felt like they tried too hard to make this movie a spoof of cop movies. I'm glad they didn't hold back with the gore scenes. Overall I liked Shaun of the Dead better. They should have made a ****ing sequel.
 
demon said:
I totally agree on that. It was unnecessary and just came off as too ridiculous, even for this movie.
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If it wasn't for the fact that it was used to setup the totally worth it "Lethal-Weapon 2" parody shot, I might agree.
 
I went into this movie without seeing really any commercials and without seeing Shaun of the Dead and I ****ing loved it. It started off being a little clever, but still funny, and I got a little sleepy during the middle in a few scenes but I laughed all the way through the last third of the movie. And I generally don't laugh at comedies like that - I'll smile once I get the joke but usually I won't laugh. Seriously, never.

I admit I'm (very much) not a movie buff or anything so there could be better movies out there but it's one of my favorite movies ever.
 
Saw this a while ago. Only just noticed this thread.

I didn't like the movie at all. And I was a big fan of Shaun of the Dead.

It felt like they tried too hard to be funny. The shooting scenes went on for 10 minutes too long (I assume it was meant to be funny that they fire then duck then the other guys fire then duck then they fire and duck then the other guys fire and duck etc etc). Seriously, I was falling asleep and wishing it was over by about half way through.

The only thing I enjoyed in the movie was the chick ("nothing like a bit of girl on girl!"), and the death scenes. The rest was horrible.

I was beggining to believe these guys could do no wrong. I guess in the end, they just can't please everyone all of the time. And judging by the responses in this thread, I'm in the minority.
 
weird - i thought Shawn was massively overrated - and i thought HF was very awesome.

And is it me, but after this i thought "hey, Timothy Dalton would actually make a good Bond now he's a bit older and rougher" .. .. ?
 
I like a good parody, and this, sadly, wasn't it.

I was hopeful with the little bit at the beginning where he was talking with his wife--that seemed promising in the sense of "bad cop movie parody"--then the film just sort of deteriorated into a ball of comedy cliches.

My friends and I were just sitting in the back, waiting for laughs that never came. I probably laughed harder at
the woman in the front row who laughed way too long at the He-Man references
than I did at anything else in the film. It just wasn't very good.
 
Loved this movie. Absolutely loved it, possibly more than Shaun of the Dead but in a different way since both movies sorta fill a niche in their own way. Quite possibly my favourite line from the movie though was (spoilered just in case)
shortly after the house exploded and the cops were all outside, the female cop says something along the lines of "I like a good midnight gobble" and the unintelligible cop says "COCKS".
Only myself and a friend of mine seemed to be the only ones in the theater to pick up on it though. I think I may need to see it again sometime in the next couple weeks.
 
From what I can gather the people that didn't seem to like it (which is cool) either didn't get it, or just haven't seen enough action films.

more to the point it's not really meant to parody cop films anymore than Shaun of the Dead was a parody of Zombie films.

It's an order of semantics but it's an homage, not a parody. It's embracing the genre, warts and all, and loving it for it, then slapping on Wright's and Pegg's usual style.
 
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